ShareGate vs. Syskit: What IT pros need to know
Two tools for managing and improving your Microsoft 365 tenant’s governance and security posture. Here's how they compare.
Feature information on this page is based on publicly available ShareGate and Syskit documentation as of July 2026. Features and pricing may change. Verify with each vendor before making a purchasing decision.
Which one fits your situation?
ShareGate Protect is built for operational governance: seeing what's exposed, fixing what's risky, and cutting what's wasted. Syskit Point is built for structured governance processes: auditing, provisioning, scheduled reporting, and alerts.
ShareGate Protect
- "Who has access to what?" is the question in front of you right now.
- One plan that includes everything. No tiers, no add-ons.
- Asking questions and fixing issues from Copilot, Claude, or ChatGPT beats opening another admin console.
- Read-only access by default, with remediation as an explicit opt-in.
- Delegated reviews, automated policies, license and storage savings, and unlimited support shouldn’t cost extra.
- You already use ShareGate Migrate.
Syskit Point
- You need provisioning templates, naming policies, and approval workflows.
- You need tenant-wide activity auditing with one-year (or paid longer) retention.
- Scheduled report delivery and email alerts are must-haves.
- You need self-hosting, custom Azure regions, or scale past 10,000 users.
- Power Platform governance matters and the add-on fits your budget.
Key differences
A full side-by-side across scope, pricing, features, and support.
| ShareGate Protect | Syskit Point | |
|---|---|---|
| Scope | The operational governance for M365. See every risk in M365, fix what matters, and keep it that way. | A platform for M365 governance and security. Control access, prevent oversharing and sprawl, and manage the tenant lifecycle. |
| Pricing | One plan, per-user pricing, quote-based. No minimums, no usage limits, no feature tiers. Every capability available today is included. | Four plans with published starting prices: $12 / $24 / $36 per user per year, Enterprise custom. 100-user Cloud minimum, 1,000-user Enterprise minimum, annual terms only. |
| What's included | Permissions visibility, reporting, remediation, automated policies, delegated reviews, cost and license insights, AI tool governance, and unlimited support. | Depends on the plan. Six capabilities are separate paid add-ons: Power Platform governance, License Optimization, extended audit retention, Premium Support, guided onboarding, and dedicated regional deployment. |
| Permissions visibility | Centralized permissions matrix across SharePoint and OneDrive—content hierarchy, broken inheritance, user and group permissions, sharing links per object. Reporting only. | Permissions reports down to file level across the tenant. Bulk actions on permissions and memberships. Scheduled delivery on Security plan and above. |
| Govern from your AI tools | ShareGate MCP lets you surface insights, fix issues, and pull governance data from inside Copilot, Claude, or ChatGPT. Every action shows a plain-English preview and requires confirmation. | Not documented. The Syskit Point API is in beta. |
| Sharing links | Full report of every anonymous and company-wide link: who created it, when, what it grants. Delete in-report, at scale, or automatically via a daily policy. | Bulk link removal including anonymous and org-wide links. Link reviews delegated to workspace owners. Known limitation: removal can't fully complete across Multi-Geo tenants. |
| Guest access | Reports for groups with guests and external guests, plus inactive-guest identification. Fix guest issues directly from reports, in bulk. | Inactive guest cleanup via policy and owner reviews. Guest last-login visibility limited to the 90-day Entra log window. |
| Workspace lifecycle | Inactive workspace and ownerless group reports. Archiving via Microsoft 365 Archive. Daily automated policies that archive or delete. Delegated reviews dispatch lifecycle, access, and sharing decisions to workspace owners—response rates tracked. | Inactive and orphaned workspace detection with owner keep/archive/delete tasks, min/max owner policies, expiration workflows. |
| Provisioning | Not a current offering. | Workspace request templates with naming policies, custom metadata, and approval workflows. |
| Copilot readiness | Readiness dashboard showing what Copilot can access. Archiving stale workspaces reduces the data surface Copilot draws from. | Copilot Readiness Dashboard: risky links, external label, label validation checklist. Copilot Agents monitored via the Power Platform add-on. |
| Sensitivity labels | Visibility into labels and their settings. Labels are managed in Microsoft Purview. | Label validation, management actions, sensitivity reviews, and workspaces-without-a-label policy. |
| Reporting & delivery | Natural language report builder, prebuilt templates, saved custom reports, CSV export. No scheduled email subscriptions. From your AI tools, Protect's data feeds any delivery format you already use. | Scheduled report subscriptions as Excel or PDF by email or to SharePoint (Security plan and above). |
| Auditing | Full action log of every change made inside Protect. | User, admin, file, and sharing activity auditing across SharePoint, Teams, Groups, Exchange Online, and OneDrive. One-year Cloud retention; 1–7 years via paid add-on. |
| Automation | Daily automated policies for sites, groups, OneDrives, and sharing links: archive, delete, or remove links. Bulk remediation with a full action log. | Rules engine automatically applies policies to existing and new workspaces. Vulnerability tasks dispatched to workspace owners. |
| Access footprint | Read-only by default. Protect reads metadata — never file content. Remediation requires separate, explicit consent. SOC 2 Type II. | App registration includes Full Control on all SharePoint sites. Service principal added to the Exchange Administrator role. ISO 27001, AES-256 at rest. |
| Deployment | SaaS only. Data at rest in North America or Europe. | SaaS across US, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. Self-hosted via Enterprise plan (minimum 1,000 users, unlimited audit log storage). Custom Azure regions via Managed Dedicated Deployment add-on. |
| Support | Unlimited support. No case caps, no paid tiers. | Standard support capped at 20 cases per year, weekday CET hours, no remote assistance. Faster SLAs and senior engineers via the paid Premium Support add-on. |
One price vs. plans and add-ons
Syskit publishes starting prices: $12, $24, and $36 per user per year across its three Cloud plans. Volume pricing is quoted, the Cloud minimum bills for 100 users even if you have 60, and terms are annual only. The rest (Power Platform governance, license optimization, managed dedicated deployment, extended audit retention, faster support, guided onboarding) are separate add-ons.
ShareGate Protect is one per-user price for everything available today: no minimums, no usage limits, no tiers.
Syskit pricing and licensing verified from syskit.com/pricing and docs.syskit.com as of July 2026. ShareGate Protect pricing model from sharegate.com/pricing as of July 2026; ShareGate provides exact quotes per tenant. Confirm current pricing directly with each vendor before budgeting.
Go deeper on what matters to you
Pick the risk area that applies to your project.
Oversharing & permissions
Both tools answer "who has access to what." The difference is what happens after.
Sharing links & guest access
Sharing links and guest access are where most M365 exposure actually lives. Here's how each tool handles them.
Workspace lifecycle
Both tools manage inactive workspaces. Protect focuses on cleanup; Syskit also lets you control what gets created.
| ShareGate Protect | Syskit Point | |
|---|---|---|
| Inactive workspaces | Inactive workspace and ownerless group reports, with an adjustable inactivity window. Cost insights put a dollar value on license and storage waste. | Inactive workspace detection with automated keep/archive/delete tasks sent to owners. |
| Archiving | Single or bulk archiving through Microsoft 365 Archive. Restore via the M365 admin center. | Archiving available within expiration workflows. |
| Automation | Daily policies archive or delete matching sites, groups, and OneDrives automatically. Actions are logged in the activity log. | Rules engine applies policies to existing and new workspaces; min/max owner and membership policies. |
| Provisioning | Not a current offering. | Workspace request templates with naming policies, custom metadata, and approval workflows. |
| Owner involvement | Delegated reviews: dispatch lifecycle, access, and sharing decisions to workspace owners. You control the scope. Response rates tracked, full action history. | Recurring workspace reviews with owner tasks, reminders, and escalation paths. |
Copilot & sensitivity labels
Copilot doesn't create oversharing problems. It exposes the ones you already have. Here's how each tool helps you get ahead of them.
Reporting, auditing & alerts
Syskit covers scheduled delivery, email alerts, and tenant-wide auditing. Protect covers report building, cost insights, and governance data through your AI tools.
Feature and pricing information verified from public ShareGate and Syskit sources as of June 2026. Confirm current scope with each vendor before purchasing.
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The information on this page comparing ShareGate Protect and Syskit Point is provided for informational purposes only. All product comparisons are based on publicly available information as of July 2026, including syskit.com product and pricing pages, Syskit Point documentation at docs.syskit.com, Syskit’s published support agreement, and ShareGate documentation on sharegate.com and help.sharegate.com. Features, pricing, and performance data are subject to change. For the most current information about Syskit Point, please visit Syskit’s website.
ShareGate Protect capabilities described on this page reflect the July 2026 release, including permissions visibility and ShareGate MCP for governance actions and data access through AI tools. ShareGate makes no representation regarding the accuracy or completeness of any third-party product information presented on this page. This comparison does not constitute a warranty or guarantee regarding the performance or functionality of any product.